William Strang distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. Only 10.8% is devoted to #AD9276, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 55 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that William Strang's complete body of work advances.